XAML and UI, whever it is found. Phone, Surface, Silverlight or WPF
Posted in PDC on Oct 27th, 2008
Not all the Window Azure web sites have been enabled yet. Here are a few links that are working. http://www.microsoft.com/azure/windowsazure.mspx Azure Services Platform Developer Center Azure Forums Azure Service Developer Portal #pdc08
Posted in PDC on Oct 27th, 2008
It not unexpected, not really. Today Microsoft announced a brand new OS — Windows Azure. It is not a OS that you run on your own servers. It is a hosted OS. currently it is only available on Microsoft servers. Eventually Windows Azure might be hostable on other company servers but not yet. First we [...]
Posted in Conferences, PDC on Oct 27th, 2008
Apparently the entire Tuesday keynote at PDC will about the client side. My guess is there will be a lot of demos of Windows 7. I wonder if Ray Ozzie will talk about RIA’s too?
Posted in WPF on Oct 26th, 2008
I had a chance to finish the Shazzam-tool.com web site today. It’s written in Silverlight 2. http://shazzam-tool.com/ Includes screenshots of Shazzam, training videos and the click-once installer. Shazzam The instant WPF pixel shader effect compiler and tester.
Posted in Conferences, PDC on Oct 24th, 2008
The PDC 2008 web site has a nice Session planner tool. You can see all the sessions for the entire day or one time-slot, plan your schedule, see only your chosen sessions etc. Now available is a PDC 2008 Session PDF document that is more suitable for printing. Talk about overload, it’s fourteen pages of [...]
Posted in WPF on Oct 24th, 2008
Looks like my WPF data-binding article has been published in Code Magazine. The magazine should be arriving within the next couple weeks. If you are a subscriber you can read the article on the Code Magazine site. If you’re not a subscriber you can read a few pages of the article.. When the next Code [...]
Posted in Conferences on Oct 22nd, 2008
This is a first for me. 2008 is the first time I’ll be going to all of the big three Microsoft conferences. Mix08, TechEd Florida and PDC. Plus I narrowly missed giving a session at TechEd Barcelona. Yes, it’s been a busy year.
Posted in Conferences on Oct 21st, 2008
Planning your day at PDC is fun and frustrating. There is ~200 sessions for the week, approximately fifty per day. What to choose, what to do? If you are interested in the future of graphics on the Windows platform you might want to add “Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware” [...]
A couple days ago I posted about Shazzam, the new WPF Pixel Shader Effect Testing Tool. The goal of Shazzam is to make it simple to edit and test WPF Pixel Shader Effects. I got a flurry of responses and questions about the tool. That’s great, looks like it’s going to fill a niche in [...]
Posted in Silverlight on Oct 13th, 2008
Kurt has some more details about Silverlight 2 and Eclipse at his blog.
